Text | Title | Language | Start folio (ordinal) | End folio (ordinal) | Total pages |
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1 | ff. 2r-25r: Matthew Paris, Vita Offarum . | Latin | 2r (3) | 25r (49) | 47.0 |
2 | ff. 25v-26v: Matthew Paris, a part of the Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani, begins: 'Cum Danorum rabies in Anglia feralius grassaretur', ends: 'litteris minime commendatur'. | Latin | 25v (50) | 26v (52) | 3.0 |
3 | ff. 27r-29v: Translation of the relics St Alban. | Latin | 27r (53) | 29v (58) | 6.0 |
4 | ff. 30r-69r: Matthew Paris, the Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani, begins: 'Hic prenotantur nomina Abbatum Ecclesie Sancti Albani'. Ends (f. 68v): 'hec pagina a frater Matthieo scripta est parisiensi. qui de futuris non presumit diffinire'. This is followed by accounts until 1252 (ff. 68v-69r). | Latin | 30r (59) | 69v (138) | 79.5 |
5 | ff. 69v-148v: Liber additamentorum, a cartulary spanning the years 1242-1259 gathered by Matthew Paris. This cartulary consists in numerous Papal privileges and St Alban's charters. | Latin | 69v (138) | 148v (296) | 155.0 |
6 | Cartulary | French | 98v (196) | 98v (196) | 0.5 |
7 | Cartulary | French | 132v (264) | 132v (264) | 0.5 |
8 | Cartulary | French | 138v (276) | 140v (280) | 2.5 |
9 | ff. 149r-161r: Series of St Alban's charters and privileges. Matthew Paris copied these documents from a 12th-century St Alban's cartulary. | Latin | 149r (297) | 161v (322) | 26.0 |
10 | ff. 162r-163r: a list of Popes from Peter to Nicolas III. The list is continued by later additions until Paul II. | Latin | 162r (323) | 163v (326) | 3.5 |
11 | ff. 163v-164v: a Liber provincialis. | Latin | 163v (326) | 164v (328) | 2.5 |
12 | ff. 165r-v: notes in the hand of Matthew Paris. | Latin | 165r (329) | 165v (330) | 2.0 |
13 | ff. 166r-v: continuation of the Liber provincialis. | Latin | 166r (331) | 166v (332) | 1.5 |
14 | ff. 166v-167r: Obituary of St Alban's from 1216 to 1253. Matthew Paris mentioned himself: 'Hoc anno ego Frater Matheus Parisiensis habitum suscepi religionis, die sancte Agnetis'. | Latin | 166v (332) | 167r (333) | 1.0 |
15 | f. 167r: Names of the kings of England from Hyne to Henry III with a long note on John the 1st. | Latin | 167r (333) | 167r (333) | 0.5 |
16 | ff. 168r-169r: Laurent of Saint-Alban's responses against Henri III's accusations laying against Hubert de Burgh, count of Kent. | Latin | 168r (335) | 169r (337) | 3.0 |
17 | ff. 169v-170v: A drawing of the elephant sent to Henry III by Louis IX of France as a gift in 1255 (f. 169v). Some account about the elephant are written (ff. 169r-170v). | Latin | 169v (338) | 170v (340) | 3.0 |
18 | ff. 171r-171v: coloured drawings of coats of arms of the English nobility (Dean no. 391.1) | French | 171r (341) | 171v (342) | 1.0 |
19 | ff. 171r-171v: coloured drawings of coats of arms of the English nobility (Dean no. 391.1) | Latin | 171r (341) | 171v (342) | 1.0 |
20 | f. 172r: The tenants holding fees and lands of St Alban's. | Latin | 172r (343) | 172r (343) | 1.0 |
21 | f. 172v: list of persons holding a land by service at Newcastle and Chichester, 28th year of Henry III's reign. | Latin | 172v (344) | 172v (344) | 1.0 |
22 | f. 173r: list of persons holding a land by service during the reign of Edward I. | Latin | 173r (345) | 173r (345) | 1.0 |
23 | ff. 173v-175v: various charters and accounts involving St Alban's, the king or the exchequer. | Latin | 173v (346) | 174r (347) | 2.0 |
24 | ff. 176r-183r: pleas from St Alban's. | Latin | 176r (351) | 183r (365) | 14.0 |
25 | ff. 181v-182r: lands owned by St Alban's written in Matthew Paris's hand. | Latin | 181v (362) | 182r (363) | 1.0 |
26 | ff. 183v-184r: drawn itinerary from London to Naples. | French | 183v (366) | 184r (367) | 2.0 |
27 | f. 184v-: accounts about Thomas of Savoy's sons with a genealogical tree in the margin. Accounts about the children of Alienor, queen of England accompanied with a genealogical tree in the margin. | Latin | 184v (368) | 184v (368) | 1.0 |
28 | f. 185r: a note in honour of the King of Offa. A note of the different winds accompanied with a diagram. A pen trial of a bird overcome the circle of the winds. | Latin | 185r (369) | 185r (369) | 1.0 |
29 | f. 185v: a circular diagram of the winds with the names in Latin and old French linked to the elements. Below, verses about the winds, the red rubric specifies: 'Frater Matheus, De ventis'. | Latin | 185v (370) | 185v (370) | 0.33 |
30 | North West' etc. | English | 185v (370) | 185v (370) | 0.33 |
31 | est' etc. | French | 185v (370) | 185v (370) | 0.33 |
32 | Latin charts etc. | Latin | 186r (371) | 186r (371) | 1.0 |
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